Poor old Cesc is off to the shops! …..

You can tell it is International fortnight can’t you, Cesc goes off to join his fellow Spaniards and the gutter press get themselves all excited. They know they can fire silly questions at our captain and Barca players, then add whatever answer they want to the question and then print it, in fact worse than that they ad a few “ “ either side of the rubbish they write!

Today its the turn of Carles Puyol, fellow Spaniard and Barcelona player to add his bit about Cesc.

“Cesc would have his reasons, to go, and would have the same opportunities that he has at Arsenal. The market dictates the value and you pay a lot for players of a high level but if he comes I hope we don’t pay much,” Puyol remarked.

To go where? Where is the question you put to Puyol relating to the answer, after all the reporter could have asked Cesc if he was off to the shops as he had run out of milk, then of course he would have ‘reasons to go’!

Stupid example – yes, but I am sure you get my point, the only time any Barcelona player will see Cesc at the Nou Camp is if we draw them in the semi-final of the Champions League! Simples!

£60 Million is now the amount bantered around to be the value of our captain; Barcelona and Real Madrid are to commence battle in order to sign him… What utter rubbish!

Fabregas said: ‘‘I am ignoring any talk about my future. I live day to day and my dream is to win the Premier League with Arsenal this season.’’

That’s all we need to hear!

Rasp commented yesterday about the bizarre treatment that Robin van Persie is to undergo in order to heal quicker.

‘Crocked Arsenal striker Robin van Persie has resorted to an unorthodox treatment in order to rush him back into action – rubbing placenta fluid into his injured ankle.’

Not a bubble in sight for his ankle, that makes a change, but in all honesty I am sure none of us mind what he tries especially if it heals his injury quicker, and personally the news that our medical staff will not be anywhere near him increases his chance of a quicker return too!! 😉

I read somewhere yesterday about giving thought to Roman Pavlyuchenko, would he be a better option to buy in January? Chamakh will be taking part in the ACON ( I had forgotten that) so we wouldn’t see him at Arsenal until February in any case.

Pavlyuchenko however is used to the EPL, isn’t CL cup tied (of course he isn’t he plays for Spurs!) and I am sure under our manager he would find his shooting boots..

Now that’s one to think about – I think it’s hard to judge him, after all its a bit like watching a striker in a Division 3 side play and wondering if he would be good enough for Arsenal…. 🙂

That’s it for today; the news is mainly filled with human and horse placenta, the mind boggles..

Adebayor has revealed that he was forced out of Arsenal by manager Arsene Wenger.

The 25-year-old joined Manchester City last summer in a £25million deal and although insisting he loves life at Eastlands the striker confesses Arsene Wenger advised him it would be best if he left.

Personally, I love it when ex players of ours still find the need to talk about Arsenal and in this case, how Lardy thinks he was forced out!!

To me all it says is he still wishes he was at Arsenal and is not happy at Citeh. After all, if you split with a partner, you don’t spend your time looking back if you know what you have done is right do you..!

Liverpool’s Dutch international Dirk Kuyt has claimed that compatriot Robin van Persie was the subject of a bad challenge from Italian Giorgio Chiellini, despite the Arsenal striker admonishing his opponent of any blame for the ankle injury which he subsequently sustained. Arsene Wenger is set to be without his leading scorer for six weeks after it was confirmed the 26-year-old had suffered ligament damage.

Speaking about the friendly encounter with Italy, Kuyt spoke openly about the disappointing tactics employed by the reigning World champions.

“I was very disappointed,” Kuyt told Sky Sports News.

“We played a friendly against a big country – Italy – and if you see the way they kicked us it’s very sad, very sad for the Dutch team and also very sad for Robin because he was in great form.

“I think it was a bad tackle [Chiellini on van Persie] sometimes you think about this when you play a friendly for your country there should be more respect for each other and hopefully it won’t happen in the future.”

Reports in respected Spanish publication El Mundo Deportivo reveal that Real Madrid are set to sell six stars in the January transfer window. The six set for the exit door are Mahamadou Diarra, who has been linked with Arsenal, former Manchester United forward Ruud van Nistelrooy who has attracted interest from Tottenham Hotspur, Argentine international Fernando Gago, former Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek, Dutch international Royston Drenthe, previously linked with Chelsea, and German defender Christopher Metzelder.

The news will put the a host of Europe’s top clubs on alert with Madrid president Florentino Perez looking to ease the clubs wage bill following last summer’s 250 million euro blow out.

Wenger has brought players in the latter stages of their careers from Real Madrid before….remember Davor Sukor….I wouldn’t mind Horsey until the end of the season; can you imagine him being supplied by Fabregas, Arshavin, Rosicky and Nasri?

I don’t have the same hang ups as most people have over Silvestre; he is fifth choice to start and happy to be left on the bench; I doubt that Metzelder would be happy spending so much time on the bench, that is exactly what he has been doing at Madrid for the last two years. In fact, I think we are quite lucky to have Fish Face.

London, what I asked was about ‘organized’ supporter clubs, you know? That doesn’t mean violence at all, it’s just another way to try to change something in your club. I don’t know how is the press over there in England, but I don’t think street fights are over in UK. Just look to WHU v Millwall; d’you really thinkg they fought on the pitch and they’ll never fight each other again? Well, here in Brazil there are many fights still, but the press doesn’t show it for everyone.

I just want to be clear: I don’t like fights and violence in football, I just want to know how are the supporting clubs in England… if you could tell me something about it, thank you, if not, thank you as well. As I said: supporting clubs don’t mean violence!

I obviously misunderstood the significance that the word “Ultas” has in Sao Paulo. I wrongly associated it with hooligans. I think the reason why I made the mistake was becasue the only time I have heard it is in Spain where the term is always associated with violence; although, it is a tiny, tiny minority.

I think the other thing I was wrong about was the suggestion that football violence was a thing of the past here…..I forgot about the Millwall/West Ham embarrassment.

From the perspective of an Arsenal fan I am glad that most of those kind of problems are behind us. I go to quite a few Champions League games in Europe and I am always proud to say to any of the locals who I might meet that they needn’t worry about the possibility of trouble happening: we are Arsenal…….a better kind of club and a better kind of supporter.

I heard somewhere that Jones is out for the game on Saturday. If that is the case then they are left with Bent and a situation that a player of Silvestre’s experience should take in his stride…..there is also a school of thought that believes that Fish Face should be first choice against the Chavs regardless of Gibbs’ health.